I have a sports metaphor story for this!
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
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David Waldman
This does not mean “don’t worry about it,” or even that “it’s just a distraction.”
It means fight, delay, push back, express doubt, and do anything you can to remind anyone who’ll listen that Trump and Trumpers threaten all sorts of things and hope you’ll jump out of the way.
Don’t forfeit.
It means fight, delay, push back, express doubt, and do anything you can to remind anyone who’ll listen that Trump and Trumpers threaten all sorts of things and hope you’ll jump out of the way.
Don’t forfeit.
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That is, do not obey in advance. Delay, obstruct, question, stall. Authority is fragile. It breaks, it leaks. Any challenge knocks them off-track.
They are fueled by your fear. They are fueled by your obedience.
Defy.
Perfect throws are so uncommon that they are all on highlight reels.
Even at the highest levels, Major League in baseball or the Federal government, the players are not perfect. And Donald Trump hires bush leaguers.
They’ve made mistakes that blew up in their faces before, they’ll make them again.
When the entire stadium is booing the ump for bad calls, they remember that.
And when the courts don't do what you want, you ignore them and plow ahead with your policy anyway.
The Roberts court is VERY CLEAR: Precedents are dead. The law means nothing.
NOT how to cheat. Just how to do everything you could to win.
What did he mean?
But, will they? They’ll try! They’ll threaten to!
Not this coach.
The reality was, he taught, that the fielders with the ball near at hand are ten years old. The chances of them perfectly executing a clutch play at the plate in the face if your charge are LOW.
Nor to the other coaches in the league! Even when he consistently beat them with equally skilled or even arguably inferior teams!
“It doesn’t make sense! These kids won’t have ‘the fundamentals’ later on!”
And THOSE were the kids who went on to play college ball and for some, pro ball.
But our lesson isn’t about how to turn pro. It’s about MAKING THE OTHER TEAM MAKE PLAYS.
Thank you Bill James et al
They’re perhaps arguably better than they once were. But they’re not good.
But by the same token, with or without competent coaching, THEIR team will ALSO be running this play, daring us to execute.